{"id":555,"date":"2023-11-03T07:18:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T07:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuwopa.wordpress.com\/2023\/11\/03\/tao-te-ching-by-lao-tzu\/"},"modified":"2023-11-03T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T07:18:23","slug":"tao-te-ching-by-lao-tzu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/tao-te-ching-by-lao-tzu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) by Lao Tzu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The &#8222;Tao Te Ching&#8220;, roughly translated into <em>The Book of the Way and of Virtue<\/em>, is a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage <em>Laozi<\/em>. The text&#8217;s authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are still debated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a fundamental text for both philosophical and religious&nbsp;Taoism and strongly influenced other schools of&nbsp;Chinese philosophy&nbsp;and&nbsp;religion, including&nbsp;Legalism,&nbsp;Confucianism, and&nbsp;Chinese Buddhism, which was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>When people see things as beautiful, ugliness is created.<br>When people see things as good, evil is created.<\/p>\n<cite>Lao Tzu<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fundamental text for both philosophical and religious\u00a0Taoism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}